Regex problems with "&"

[pinkcow]

hi

i want to relace links with a div tag like this:

$pattern = '(www|[a-zA-Z]+://)([^[:space:]]+)';

	$txt = eregi_replace($pattern, "<div onclick=\"nWin('\\1\\2')\">\\2</div>", strip_tags($src));
	

my problem is that it stops at the first "&" and doesn't continue in the text. everything afterwards is cut away.

for example:
$pattern = "this text isn't complete after the replacement, www.basenet.ch?id=5&clean=user i wonder why?"

output = "this text isn't complete after the replacement, <div ...>www.basenet.ch?id=5</div>"

[wilku]

[:space:] means blank character - maybe & is a blank character? Try using different character class e.g [a-zA-Z0-9?&;] instead [^[:space:]]

[pinkcow]

how can & be a blank character? i now i could use ([:alnum:]_-.\?&)+ but i'd like to know why my original doesn't work for future use.

[laserlight]

Could you give an example that we can run to test?

Incidentally, I note that the ereg type functions are being phased out in favour of the preg type functions.

[NogDog]

Seems to work OK for me with your sample text, except that the "www" is dropped in the text between the <div> tags, and I'm not sure if that's what you want.

<?php
$src = "this text isn't complete after the replacement, www.basenet.ch?id=5&clean=user i wonder why?";
$pattern = '(www|[a-zA-Z]+://)([^[:space:]]+)';
$txt = eregi_replace($pattern, "<div onclick=\"nWin('\\1\\2')\">\\2</div>", strip_tags($src));
header('Content-Type: text/plain');
echo $txt;

Output:

this text isn't complete after the replacement, <div onclick="nWin('www.basenet.ch?id=5&clean=user')">.basenet.ch?id=5&clean=user</div> i wonder why?